"Maybe it ain't a sin. Maybe it's just the way folks are. Maybe we been whipping the hell out of ourselves for nothing. And it was night when it came to me... There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff that people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got the right to say."

"I got to thinking how we were holy when we were one thing, and mankind was holy when it was one thing. And it only got unholy when one miserable little fella got the bit in his teeth and run off his own way, kicking, and dragging, and fighting. Fella like that busts the holiness. But when they're all working together, not one fella for another fella, but one fella kinda harnessed to the whole shebang - that's holy."